Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Scottish Court Convicts For Anti-Semitic YouTube Video

The Jewish Chronicle reports that a Sheriff's Court in Airdrie, Scotland yesterday found 30-year old Mark Meechan guilty of a hate crime for a YouTube posting that went viral. The video featured a dog owned by Meechan's girlfriend. Meechan had trained the dog to give a Nazi salute when Meechan said "sieg heil" or "gas the Jews." Meechan, who has apologized, says the video was his attempt to annoy his girl friend:

My girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is, so I thought I would turn him into the least cute thing I could think of, which is a Nazi.

The Sheriff's Court judge however ruled:

The accused knew that the material was offensive and knew why it was offensive. He would have known it was grossly offensive to many Jewish people.